Win dinner with Barack Obama and…

posted at 2:01 pm on June 3, 2012 by Jazz Shaw

Let’s prepare to close out the weekend with something which doesn’t fit any other possible category except “bizarre.” Alert readers are likely already aware that the President celebrated Friday’s dismal jobs report by striking out on a breathtaking series of six campaign appearances to help shore up the nation’s economy. You might think that would be enough for most people. (I mean, how much more can the guy do for us? He must be exhausted!) But no! There’s more campaign goodness in store.

Without much fanfare, Team Obama rolled out a new ad which will be running tonight during the MTV Movie Awards. It offers the opportunity for two lucky people to have dinner with not only the President and the First Lady, but with two of the people I’m sure we’d all like to spend time with. One is Sarah Jessica Parker. The other, and the hostess of this advertisement, is Vogue editor-in-chief and real life inspiration for The Devil Wears Prada, Anna Wintour. If you’ve never heard Ms. Wintour speak, it’s an experience which is.. ummm… why don’t I just let you watch it yourself.

I’m sorry, but that’s just creepy on some level I find difficult to describe. And is the MTV Movie Awards really where you want to be planting your flag, so to speak?

Yes, we get that Obama is trying to appeal to the kids/fashionistas by launching on MTV. And the awards show is fun and watchable because unlike other glad-handing awards shows, it is unpredictable. But for that reason, the ad buy raises a lot of political questions.

Not only that, but Anna Wintour? Really? Anna “Nuclear” Wintour, the alleged boss-from-hell who was the inspiration for “The Devil Wears Prada.” Doesn’t that just re-emphasize the elite, Coastal, liberal image that Republicans love to mock Obama for? It would be like if Mitt Romney were to hold a fundraiser at a place called Chateau Something….co-hosted by a CEO who just said she was going to shed 25,000 jobs from her company.

Honestly, who has their hand on the tiller over at the Obama reelection headquarters these days? This isn’t just phoning it in, it’s much closer to just generating campaign fodder for your opponent. Either way, enjoy the show! I know I won’t be watching.

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I’ll leave to others to debate the politics. Dinner with Barry, Michelle, Anna and Sarah (not so sure about the Sarah) would be an utter blast.

urban elitist on June 3, 2012 at 3:58 PM

Except, other than voting (D), you’re not one of them.

(Of course I’m guessing you’re not a Harvard grad, a famous entertainer, or a connected Chicagoan. Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong.)

The Devil/Prada woman and a man who made a televised off-the-cuff joke at the expense of special-needs children would still be sitting in their leather chairs after your hour was up. Do you really think your one pair of ridiculously expensive French jeans would protect you?

Yep. Put in my comment and it is, of course, “pending approval”. However, given that only 8 comments have met with approval, that kind of tells you how little support this video has garnered. In 2008, there would have been hundreds of little empty-minded O-bots like uppercolonside posting sycophantic praises to Duh One and the devil in the blue dress. 2012? Not so much apparently.

Yes, she comes across like an “aren’t I fashionable and well-connected” socialite type.

“The fabulous people, aka my friends, are all for Obama. They have all kinds of reasons for supporting Obama, which I won’t bother listing. All that matters is that the cool, fabulous people are for Barack and MEE-chelle.”

The music and style of the ad makes it seem like the campaign is going for a hip, urban feel. The music reminds me of the annoying background music in boutique city hotels that try to be so hip and modern with decor involving sparkly green and orange pillows everywhere, uncomfortable plastic chairs, and terrible, unusable business/computer rooms.

Doesn’t that just re-emphasize the elite, Coastal, liberal image that Republicans love to mock Obama for?

Yes!

These are the kinds of Obama supporters who look down their noses at the rest of the country.

Romney seems WAY more “in touch” with the majority of Americans than Obama.

Ugh. Try and picture that face without all the expensive drywall. Plus, she sounds foreign. I guess she’s a US citizen to be plugging a presidential campaign, huh? Maybe she’s one o’ them there non-US citizen voters the DOJ is pressuring Florida to keep registered. Or the children hipsters who watch MTV are so ultra dumb hip that getting pitched for votes by a ferriner gives them a frisson (like Chris Matthews gets up his leg) or adds cachet (gesundheit). I dunno, to me she comes off like, if she hadn’t fallen into the vacuum of fashion journalism we’d be looking at winning dinner with the third wife of a Manchester United soccer yob. Six o’ one…

It makes me want to win…I would love to spend one evening listening to the insane talk…
The Republican’s want to kill babies, old people, war on women, destroy the environment, worship corporations, let people suffer…all the while, they live in luxury most of us will never even come close to.
They wouldn’t know what to do with a rational conservative just listening and sarcastically pointing out how ridiculousness their claims would be.
No, conservatives don’t have parents, children, and we don’t hike and fish, or hunt. Neither do we breath air or swim in the same waters as the liberals. And yes we enjoy women suffering, and we want babies born so we can starve them to death…
Good grief, they (liberals) need each other, feed off each other, without another liberal in the room they would have to think…

A. What’s cool about Anna Wintour OR Sarah Jessica Parker?
B. I think you’ve just explained what you Dummacrats look for in a serious candidate… not leadership, not intelligence, not experience running any successful enterprise, just someone whom you can live vicariously through: because they gain admiration from people who play make believe for a living.
How intellectual of you.
And the saddest part? Is that you actually think Anna Wintour and SJP are cool.